In "That Beats the Band" (Topics, July 3) you noted the inability of Willimantic, Conn., to find a local marching band for its Memorial Day and Fourth of July parades and described the town's plans to march with portable radios tuned to "an uninterrupted broadcast of march music" on July 4. To musicians and music lovers, this is grotesque.
They sat inside Cafe Pergola, sipping tea, with one eye on the tennis scoreboards and another on the portable television they tuned to the World Cup.
Mr. Schwartz's tune "Portable Man" was also included on the homeless-themed "Give Us Your Poor" compilation from Appleseed (with Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger and others).
However, several family members brought a portable radio and tuned it to a frequency that allowed them to hear conversations between police and the inmates.
More important, they let you download tunes to portable devices over the air.
Portable radio tuners often tune down to 87.5, so the same equipment can be marketed worldwide.
The instrument, contained in a case of dark oak, is portable, and can be tuned to three pitches: A=440 Hz (modern concert pitch), A=415 Hz and A=486 Hz.
Subscribers might get an infuser water bottle, a DIY herb garden kit with growing tips, or a portable speaker for your workout tunes in each box, as well as beauty and fashion items and workout accessories such as this spring's double-duty yoga strap and mat carrier.
"Today you often see people in the district walking around with small portable radios so they can tune into the community radio wherever they are," says Erive Community Radio Coordinator Carlota Nhaca.
Since it is easy to fine tune and highly portable, Hadoop, together with MapReduce, has been widely used for large-scale distributed data analysis in both academy and industry.
